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And that man, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, speaks to the multitude as the Lord wills. Thus, therefore, the spirit of the Godhead will be manifest. Such, then, is the power concerning the spirit of the Godhead of the Lord. Hear now, he says, concerning the spirit which is earthly and empty and has no power, but is foolish. First, that man who seems to have a spirit exalts himself and wishes to have the first seat, and immediately is forward and shameless and talkative and lives in many luxuries and in many other deceptions, and takes wages for his prophecy; but if he does not receive them, he does not prophesy. Can a divine spirit, then, receive wages and prophesy? It is not possible for a prophet of God to do this, but the spirit of such prophets is earthly. Then, he does not approach an assembly of righteous men at all, but avoids them. But he cleaves to the double-minded and empty, and prophesies to them in a corner, and deceives them, speaking all things emptily according to their own desires; for he answers empty men. For the empty vessel, when put together with empty ones, is not broken, but they are in harmony with one another. But when he comes into an assembly full of righteous men who have the spirit of the Godhead, and prayer is made by them, that man is emptied, and the earthly spirit flees from him out of fear, and that man is struck dumb and is altogether shattered, being able to say nothing. For if you pack wine or oil into a storeroom and among them you place an empty jar, and then wish to unpack the storeroom again, that jar which you placed there empty, you will find empty also. So also the empty prophets, when they come among the spirits of the righteous, just as they came, so they are found. You have the life of both prophets. Test, therefore, from his works and his life the man who says he is spirit-bearing. But you, trust the spirit that comes from God and has power; but in the earthly and empty spirit, trust not at all, because there is no power in it; for it comes from the devil. Hear, then, the parable which I am about to tell you. Take a stone and throw it to the heaven, see if you are able to touch it; or again, take a water-pipe and squirt water into the heaven, see if you can pierce the heaven. How, I say, Lord, can these things happen? For you have spoken of both these things as impossible. As these things, then, he says, are impossible, so also the earthly spirits are powerless and weak. Take now the power that comes from above. The hail is a very small grain, and when it falls upon a man's head, how much pain it causes; or again, [take the] drop which falls from the tile to the ground and pierces the stone. You see, then, that the smallest things from above falling upon the earth great power [have;] so also the divine spirit coming from above is powerful. Therefore, trust this spirit, but keep away from the other. Commandment 12 He says to me: Remove from yourself every evil desire, and put on the good and holy desire; for clothed in this desire you will hate the evil desire and will bridle it as you wish. For the evil desire is wild, and is tamed with difficulty; for it is terrible, and by its wildness it exceedingly consumes men; and especially if a servant of God falls into it and is not prudent, he is consumed by it terribly. And it consumes such men as have not the clothing of the good desire, but are entangled with this world. These therefore para

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καὶ πλησθεὶς ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖνος τῷ πνεύματι τῷ ἁγίῳ λαλεῖ εἰς τὸ πλῆθος καθὼς ὁ κύριος βούλεται. οὕτως οὖν φανερὸν ἔσται τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς θεότητος. ὅση οὖν περὶ τοῦ πνεύματος τῆς θεότητος τοῦ κυρίου ἡ δύναμις, αὕτη. ἄκουε νῦν, φησί, περὶ τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ ἐπιγείου καὶ κενοῦ καὶ δύναμιν μὴ ἔχοντος, ἀλλὰ ὄντος μωροῦ. πρῶτον μὲν ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖνος ὁ δοκῶν πνεῦμα ἔχειν ὑψοῖ ἑαυτὸν καὶ θέλει πρωτοκαθεδρίαν ἔχειν, καὶ εὐθὺς ἰταμός ἐστι καὶ ἀναιδὴς καὶ πολύλαλος καὶ ἐν τρυφαῖς πολλαῖς ἀναστρεφόμενος καὶ ἐν ἑτέραις πολλαῖς ἀπάταις, καὶ μισθοὺς λαμβάνων τῆς προφητείας αὐτοῦ· ἐὰν δὲ μὴ λάβῃ, οὐ προφητεύει. δύναται οὖν πνεῦμα θεῖον μισθοὺς λαμβάνειν καὶ προφητεύειν; οὐκ ἐνδέχεται τοῦτο ποιεῖν θεοῦ προφήτην, ἀλλὰ τῶν τοιού των προφητῶν ἐπίγειόν ἐστι τὸ πνεῦμα. εἶτα ὅλως εἰς συναγωγὴν ἀνδρῶν δικαίων οὐκ ἐγγίζει, ἀλλ' ἀποφεύγει αὐτούς. κολλᾶται δὲ τοῖς διψύχοις καὶ κενοῖς, καὶ κατὰ γωνίαν αὐτοῖς προφητεύει, καὶ ἀπατᾷ αὐτοὺς λαλῶν κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας αὐτῶν πάντα κενῶς· κενοῖς γὰρ καὶ ἀποκρίνεται. τὸ γὰρ κενὸν σκεῦος μετὰ τῶν κενῶν συντιθέμενον οὐ θραύεται, ἀλλὰ συμφωνοῦσιν ἀλλήλοις. ὅταν δὲ ἔλθῃ εἰς συναγωγὴν πλήρη ἀνδρῶν δικαίων ἐχόντων πνεῦμα θεότητος, καὶ ἔντευξις ἀπ' αὐτῶν γένηται, κενοῦται ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖνος, καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἐπίγειον ἀπὸ τοῦ φόβου φεύγει ἀπ' αὐτοῦ, καὶ κωφοῦται ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖνος καὶ ὅλως συνθραύεται, μηδὲν δυνάμενος λαλῆσαι. ἐὰν γὰρ εἰς ἀποθήκην στιβάσῃς οἶνον ἢ ἔλαιον καὶ ἐν αὐτοῖς θῇς κεράμιον κενόν, καὶ πάλιν ἀποστι βάσαι θελήσῃς τὴν ἀποθήκην, τὸ κεράμιον ἐκεῖνο ὃ ἔθηκας κενόν, κενὸν καὶ εὑρήσεις· οὕτω καὶ οἱ προφῆται οἱ κενοὶ ὅταν ἔλθωσιν εἰς πνεύματα δικαίων, ὁποῖοι ἦλθον, τοιοῦτοι καὶ εὑρίσκονται. ἔχεις ἀμφοτέρων τῶν προφητῶν τὴν ζωήν. δοκίμαζε οὖν ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων καὶ τῆς ζωῆς τὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν λέγοντα ἑαυτὸν πνευματοφόρον εἶναι. σὺ δὲ πίστευε τῷ πνεύματι τῷ ἐρχομένῳ ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἔχοντι δύναμιν· τῷ δὲ πνεύματι τῷ ἐπιγείῳ καὶ κενῷ μηδὲν πίστευε, ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ δύναμις οὐκ ἔστιν· ἀπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου γὰρ ἔρχεται. ἄκουσον οὖν τὴν παραβολὴν ἣν μέλλω σοι λέγειν. λάβε λίθον καὶ βάλε εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, ἴδε εἰ δύνασαι ἅψασθαι αὐτοῦ· ἢ πάλιν λάβε σίφωνα ὕδα τος καὶ σιφώνισον εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, ἴδε εἰ δύνασαι τρυπῆσαι τὸν οὐρανόν. Πῶς, φημί, κύριε, δύναται ταῦτα γενέσθαι; ἀδύνατα γὰρ ἀμφότερα ταῦτα εἴρηκας. Ὡς ταῦτα οὖν, φησίν, ἀδύνατά ἐστιν, οὕτω καὶ τὰ πνεύματα τὰ ἐπίγεια ἀδύνατά ἐστι καὶ ἀδρανῆ. λάβε νῦν τὴν δύναμιν τὴν ἄνωθεν ἐρχο μένην. ἡ χάλαζα ἐλάχιστόν ἐστι κοκκάριον, καὶ ὅταν ἐπιπέσῃ ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν ἀνθρώπου, πῶς πόνον παρέχει· ἢ πάλιν [λάβε τὴν] σταγόνα ἣ ἀπὸ τοῦ κεράμου πίπτει χαμαὶ καὶ τρυπᾷ τὸν λίθον. βλέπεις οὖν ὅτι τὰ ἄνωθεν ἐλάχιστα πίπτοντα ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν μεγάλην δύναμιν [ἔχουσιν·] οὕτω καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ θεῖον ἄνωθεν ἐρχόμενον δυνατόν ἐστι· τούτῳ οὖν τῷ πνεύματι πίστευε, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ ἑτέρου ἀπέχου. Ἐντολὴ ιβ Λέγει μοι· Ἀρον ἀπὸ σεαυτοῦ πᾶσαν ἐπιθυμίαν πονηράν, ἔνδυσαι δὲ τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν τὴν ἀγαθὴν καὶ σεμνήν· ἐνδεδυμένος γὰρ τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν ταύ την μισήσεις τὴν πονηρὰν ἐπιθυμίαν καὶ χαλιναγωγήσεις αὐτὴν καθὼς βούλει· ἀγρία γάρ ἐστιν ἡ ἐπιθυμία ἡ πονηρά, καὶ δυσκόλως ἡμεροῦται· φοβερὰ γάρ ἐστι, καὶ λίαν τῇ ἀγριότητι αὐτῆς δαπανᾷ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους· μάλιστα δὲ ἐὰν ἐμπέσῃ εἰς αὐτὴν δοῦλος θεοῦ καὶ μὴ ᾖ συνετός, δαπανᾶται ὑπ' αὐτῆς δεινῶς. δαπανᾷ δὲ τοὺς τοιούτους τοὺς μὴ ἔχοντας ἔνδυμα τῆς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς ἀγαθῆς, ἀλλὰ ἐμπεφυρμένους τῷ αἰῶνι τούτῳ. τούτους οὖν παρα